From: Michael Kelly Date: 2002-01-23T08:32:51+09:00 Subject: Re: A couple of issues with the new Windows installer On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:26:20 GMT, "Guy N. Hurst" wrote: > >Phil Tomson wrote: >> >> I downloaded the ruby165-2.exe which uses the nullsoft installer instead >> of the InstallShield installer. On WinNT it installed fine. Under Win98 >> I noticed that at the end it stopped- I could kind of see that it was >> asking a question about choosing an editor for Ruby files, but the text >> was half cutoff and there were no clickable buttons showing. I remembered >> this question from the WinNT install, so I just hit enter and it finished >> OK - I'm not sure what editor it chose, though. So on Win98 there seems >> to be a bit of a problem with that question about choosing an editor at >> the end of the install process. >> > >I installed this in Win98 a couple days ago and did not have this >problem. I had the exact same issue on Win98 2nd edition install. > >> The other issue is that this installer is slllowwwwww!!! Not a huge >> problem, but I could have built Ruby from source on Linux and done a make >> install and had a bit of time left over in the time it took to install on >> Windows using this nullsoft installer. >> > >yes, extracting and installing the files did take quite awhile. >But I still prefer this installer over the InstallShield version. I have to wonder if having a running GUI list of files maybe slows this down due to the GUI list component having to allocate memory? It does seem awfully slow. Oh well, at least when it got done is was usable. :) Mike -- "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." -- Groucho Marx